Chiara Fornari

Research Associate Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK Email: chiafornari@gmail.com

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Previous position at VT: Visiting PhD student, Sept. 2012-May 2013.

Current Research Interests

The main topics of my research are mathematical models of cancer growth and treatment efficacy. In particular I am studying the inter-dependencies between population and molecular levels, i.e. I am modeling dynamics between different subpopulations of tumor cells (populations-level model) and regulatory networks (genes-level models). Specifically, I am applying multi-level models to study the progression of breast cancer, a type of malignant tumor characterized by the stem-differentiation hierarchy. These models can be also used to estimate the efficacy of drug and vaccine therapies for cancer.

Education

2011-2014 Ph.D. University of Torino, Torino, Italy, Complex Systems in Medicine and Life Sciences.
Dec 2000-Mar 2009 M.S. University of Torino, Torino, Italy, Mathematics.
Sep 2003-Dec 2009 B.S. University of Torino, Torino, Italy, Mathematics.

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